Democrats in California’s congressional delegation accused the Trump administration of “politically motivated” immigration enforcement in a letter sent to the White House Tuesday.

Increased indiscriminate arrests are keeping people from seeking healthcare, sending their kids to school or reporting crime to police, and are “compromising the civil rights and liberties of all Californians – regardless of citizenship or immigration status,” the letter states.

Nearly every Democrat in the California delegation signed onto a letter led by California Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein and Reps. Lou Correa of Santa Ana and Zoe Lofgren of San Jose.

Mar. 13, 2018, 8:39 a.m.

President Trump, on his way to San Diego to view border wall prototypes, had immigration on his mind Tuesday morning.

California’s sanctuary policies are illegal and unconstitutional and put the safety and security of our entire nation at risk. Thousands of dangerous & violent criminal aliens are released as a result of sanctuary policies, set free to prey on innocent Americans. THIS MUST STOP!

Trump’s displeasure with California’s “sanctuary state” law is no secret. Last week, his Department of Justice sued over three portions of the law, signed in 2017 in response to Trump’s stepped-up enforcement.

Mar. 13, 2018, 7:30 a.m.

On the eve of President Trump’s first visit to California since he took office, a state lawmaker says he wants to deny state tax breaks to companies that contract or subcontract to build the proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), who wields substantial influence in the creation of state tax policy as Assembly budget committee chairman, has been among the vocal opponents to the border wall, calling it counterproductive to the state’s economic growth and “a symbol of weakness and hate to the world.”

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Mar. 13, 2018, 7:10 a.m.

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to California to view border wall prototypes. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

President Trump is now en route to California on Air Force One, along with senior policy advisor Stephen Miller and Mick Mulvaney, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among others.

Trump fielded a few questions from reporters about his decision to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson before leaving the White House.

Mar. 13, 2018, 7:00 a.m.

President Trump set out to confront California’s resistance in person on Tuesday as both sides prepared for a fight over his signature issue, a southern border wall, and the immigration enforcement issues that attend it.